Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on level ground with rising ground to S and SW and overlooking Lough Arrow to N. A circular earthen platform (30m ESE-WNW; 28m NNW-SSE) defined SSW-NNE by a stony scarp (H 0.7-0.9m) and elsewhere by a stone wall (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m), incorporating some field clearance material. The perimeter is ringed with hawthorn and blackthorn bushes. The interior slopes down gently from the centre to N. An oval cairn (3.5m N-S; 5.5m E-W; H 0.5m), roughly in the centre, is partially obscured by overgrowth. Adjoining the W edge of the cashel is a subrectangular area (27.4m E-W; 28m N-S) defined on the N and S sides by sod-covered stone walls (Wth 2.5m), on the W side by a field boundary and on the E side by the cashel wall. The N wall (H 0.5m) is straight while the S wall (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.3m) is gently curved and scarped into rising ground. The interior is level. Another cashel (SL040-182---) lies c. 100m to SSW.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).

Date of upload: 18 January 2008